10% slippage on straddles would mean that the price change really is due to the piling in of orders. The strategy that I heard of utilising this...
See bold and underlined remark; you are making my point. To make the moves comparable and draw conclusion about the (un)desirability of a trade...
This seems obvious to me - you cannot execute large orders in the same way as retail orders. Institutional investors often have awful execution...
+1 on that one. Bear markets are much shorter than bull markets. The first investment book I ever read was Peter Lynch's one up on Wallstreet of...
Paper trading also has its limits and real trading is hard work. If you can consistently score 8% a year you are a wonderful trader already. Such...
(Tough love ahead) Here is what I read: - I dream of getting rich quick - I listened to some marketing BS - I had a lucky trade that made a...
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This strategy is used on single stocks - its just a strategy man - there are dozens of strategies. That you dont care what anyone recommends is...
LOL - that's the wrong criteria for starters. You have to look between 14 days to 7 days or so before earnings. Implied volatility ahead of...
You call a 4% move of the underlying minor?
The way I traded it is using a back test against a number of companies with upcoming earnings. I made such trades as recently as September/October...
srinir - I am not a client of Kim's but I can confirm his strategy is valid. It plays the odds of increasing volatility ahead of earnings which...
A lot of things are hypothetically equivalent but can work out differently in practice. In continental Europe margin accounts are not really...
Tesla is not a value play but a momentum play. Stock might drop to to 260 but I doubt it, 280$ more likely but it already looks stable at 300$. It...
If you have the time start by quoting a nickel below the current ask and wait to see what happens. Depending on the liquidity of the stock option...
Bah you are changing the goal posts - I wasnt the one that brought up the historical result of BMW. In fact I think the two stocks are...
[ATTACH] Thats actually completely the wrong comparison to make: If you had bought Tesla on 1/1/2013 you would have made ten times your money to...
[ATTACH] And the above is why you should buy TSLA and not BMW. For option traders TSLA has the IV which makes it good to trade.
I have been long Tesla since early last year more or less. I use options to reduce the cash outlay but to profit from the upswings. I started just...
Certainly true - just not what the OP was asking. He was wondering why his margin fluctuated
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